Phrases I no longer like.

[Dave Reynolds]

"(Insert name here) is TOAST!"

"This really has legs!"

"Perp walk"

I'm sure I'm forgetting some....

[Flying Dream Blues]

1. Stick a fork in him/her.

"That being said," or "having said that,"...drives me NUTS.

"Meme"

"Upordownvote"

"Family values"

Wait, do they have to be ones you USED to like?

[Dave Reynolds]

7. No,

that being said...

[HEyHEY]

2. I hate "So and so is throwing their hat into the ring"

Fuck off with that!

[Dave Reynolds]

8. That one should be

interchangeable with "throwing in the towel", but it is not.

[lpbk2713]

3. Think outside the box

But then, I never was real hot on that one anyhow.

[Dave Reynolds]

9. Overused,

like so many others..

[driver8]

15. I have hated that expression since the first time I heard it!

"You've got to think outside the box", "They are really thinking outside the box", blah, blah, blah...

[hfojvt]

4. this thread has no legs

it is toast - burnt toast

How do you feel about 'cowabunga, dude?'

[Lethe]

10. um excuse me....you are impuning our greatest crime fighters

the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. and i'll be damned if i sit here and take your anti-turtle slurs.

[hfojvt]

13. I was not impugning them, but are they really the greatest?

They are no match for "teenaged mutant kung-fu chickens" Those are "big as a house, strong as the dickens"

[Lethe]

48. pffft. please.......need i say more?

[Flying Dream Blues]

21. LOL!

[Dave Reynolds]

11. "Cowabunga, dude"

bringing out the classics.

[Straight Shooter]

5. "His hair was on fire" n/t

[Dave Reynolds]

12. That one would be problematic, as well. nt

[enigmatic]

6. A few on DU I'd like to retire

"----- has drank the Kool-Aid" and "------- has gone over to the Dark Side" are 2 I'd love to permanently ban here....

[Dave Reynolds]

14. Those are very tired, also.

"speaking truth to power", also.

I have no idea what the hell it means..

[orleans]

16. it means if you say to cheney "you're an asshole"

you've spoken truth to power

[Dave Reynolds]

38. That means

that only Georgie and Mrs. Cheney are regularly able to do that?

[Telly Savalas]

53. Power doesn't have a very keen set of ears.

I'm not sure exactly what that phrase is supposed to mean either, but it seems to only get used when someone is stressing the priority of the symbolic over the practical.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

29. No!... don't take away my precious Kool-Aid!

[brentspeak]

17. "He ripped him a new one!"

and variations, thereof.

[kanrok]

18. "At the end of the day"

Arrrggghhh.

[rppper]

19. "theoretically speaking"

uuunnnhhg grrrrrrrr!!!!!

[etch a sketch prez]

44. But what if you're a mathematician like me?

I "speak theoretically" all the time. I pretty much have to. Is saying "in principle" more acceptible?

[Scoots]

20. 'Paradigm' and 'paradigm shift'

[GirlinContempt]

26. Paradigm is just a word

[Scoots]

52. True, but there was a span of time where it seemed like every

corporation in America was studying 'paradigm shifts' 'paradigm busting' or some such garbage. Being an educated person who has even read some of Kuhn's work I found it insulting when some fry cook was trying to relay to me how avoiding paradigms was critical to the success of any business. Of course, the very nature of 'avoiding' a paradigm doesn't really make much sense, but corporate trainers made big money telling us how to do it.

It was just another example of corporate fads that I find abhorrent. A couple years after that it was 'Who Moved My Cheese'

[Deja Q]

22. Gag me with a sPoon

[Evergreen Emerald]

23. "Mom, I think the dog is sick."

It has become a phrase at our house.

[Borgnine]

24. Basically, I think we need to drop every protest saying/cliche.

Speaking as a liberal, a lot of our liberal sayings really bug me.

"Drop ____, not bombs."

"Hey hey, ho ho, ____ has got to go."

And so forth.

[Pool Hall Ace]

25. I'm already tired of "I've got your back."

on edit: And another one -- "(Verb) much ?"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

27. "That's how I roll"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

28. "My bad"

[yellowdogintexas]

39. I was tired of that the first time I heard it. I will add "my baby daddy"

I just shudder whenever I hear that.

How hard is it to say "Joey's father"?

[Devra]

30. _____thinks that they're all that and a bag of chips

this has been way over used.
there must be better ways to say that some one thinks that they are the best.

how about: they think that they are like diamonds but that is only true in terms of density.
I don't know. There must be another way.

Oh and been there done that got the t-shirt, is another one

Can't they think of something else.
How about: I better start studying my history because this situation keeps repeating itself.

[no name no slogan]

31. 'Talk to the hand'

talk to yr own goddamn hand.

[El Fuego]

32. "shits and giggles"

It makes me cringe whenever I hear it. People only think it's cool because it was in the Austin Powers movie. It sounds so ... affected.

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. We need to "pick our battles"...

Pick ONE already, Dammit!!!!

[Dave Reynolds]

37. But, if a battle were picked,

then that would render the phrase "pick your battles" obsolete, therefore giving political apologists less to work with....

[RedCloud]

34. locking

Spoilsports!

[Loonman]

35. "Don't go there"

.

[Gormy Cuss]

36. "whatever, dude" n/t

[Dukkha]

40. "Let's Roll"

I liked it when Mr. Burns says it but * has ruined it for me.

[Redstone]

41. Never liked any of them in the first place.

given how socially oblivious I am, I know that by the time I become aware of popular phrases, they MUST be worn out.

So I take the simple expedient of avoiding them all like the Plague.

redstone

[Canadian Socialist]

42. Step off

I never really understood that one.

Then again, I really hate, "Where the rubber hits the road". or "Shift the paradigm". WTF!

[Redstone]

43. Wait, I forgot an annoying classic: "I've got to be me"

(And all variants of this song-title inane statement.)

Well, yes, I suppose of course you DO have to be yourself, don't you, you twit? Who the fuck else you gonna be, Porfirio Rubirosa?

Redstone

[sendero]

45. "On the ground"..

.... usually said by people who's heads are firmly in the clouds.

[The Jacobin]

46. Phrases I never liked.

"Get 'er done!"

[undeterred]

47. Been there. Done That. Don't Even Go There.

[XemaSab]

50. The sign said "don't go there,"

but you went there.

[chaska]

49. I'm sick to death of 60s expressions, especially drug related ones.

[Jamastiene]

51. "Weapons of mass destruction" and

anything Fred Phelps ever says.

[Aimah]

54. "I'm Rick James _____"

[Ivan Sputnik]

55. "No worries"

"under the radar"
"pushing the envelope"
"Can't we all just get along?"
"Whatever."

[arwalden]

56. "Spot On"

[bunnywhiskers]

57. "In the interest of time"

"Fair enough"

"by the way"

"sweet"

[newyawker99]

58. "push the envelope"

"It's the nature of the beast"
"talk to the hand"

and I am sure there are others
that I can't remember right now.

[RockaFowler]

59. Anything Hurricane related

After last year I can't stand these sayings:

Hunker Down

Get to your safe room

Cone of Uncertainty

Of course they are at it again here in South Florida . . .